WordPress Help
Official documentation, learning resources, and contributor guides collected from WordPress.org.
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Getting Started With Support
Getting started in Support is a comfort level thing. You help where you’re most comfortable and because of that, there’s no ‘one size fits all’ reply to the simple question of “How do I get started?” We can, however, give you some general pointers. Follow this blog! We talk about stuff here, and try to…
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MediaWiki formatting
The styles for the WordPress Codex are different from other wikis. For specifics, see Codex:Styles. The following editing styles and markup cover the specific style of the Codex and includes recommendations and structure formats from MediaWiki’s Guide: Editing Overview. For more information on styling these pages, see: Guide to Creating New Pages WordPress Codex Styles…
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Writing tips
The WordPress Codex is written in second person familiar in English. This removes the “I” from the instructions and tutorials and puts “you” in the driver’s seat. Here’s two paragraphs to compare the difference: I needed to display my categories in the sidebar of my blog. To do this I went to the Widgets under Appearance and…
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Creating a new document
You will learn how to create a new page in this guide. Before you start on this, you should have read the Guide to creating User Pages, and created a User Page for yourself. That allows you to create your own personal testing ground for new pages and rough draft articles. We cover creating an…
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Documentation contributor handbook
This handbook contains information about how to contribute to WordPress documentation and be a member of the Documentation team. Who is in the Documentation team? Documentation team consists of volunteers and a few sponsored contributors with various backgrounds, levels of knowledge and experience working with WordPress. The team is maintaining both: end user and developer…
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Administration Overview
All moderators have extra links under gravatars in posts, like “edit,” “delete,” and “spam,” all rather self-explanatory. You can also see emails and IPs, please use that information wisely. Abuse will lead to you being removed as a mod, and probably from the forums entirely. Enforcing the Guidelines We have guidelines, not rules, for a…
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How to Moderate bbPress (aka bbPress Basics)
On Sept 1, 2016, the forums were upgraded to bbPress 2.x This changed everything. Since bbPress 2 runs on WordPress, moderator powers are more closely managed as they give users powers to more aspects of the WordPress.org site. This page is a work in progress! Links and directions are likely to change. Forum roles There…
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When Good Users Go Bad
It happens to everyone. Sometimes someone just loses their mind on the forums. If it’s you, please log off and go knit, or swordfight, or run, or … you get the idea. Get outside and offline for a bit. But when it’s the folks in the forum we’re sworn to protect, what do we do?…
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StackExchange
What You Need to Know WordPress Answers, more commonly known as WordPress Stack Exchange (WPSE), is part of Stack Exchange question and answer site network. It was created on initiative of network users and is not affiliated with the WordPress project. On the site questions about WordPress can be freely asked and answered, as long as…
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Forum Moderators
Prior to Sept 1, 2016 the Moderator title was granted to many users as a mark of recognition and prestige. When the Support Forums were upgraded to bbPress 2.x, this was changed. Moderators now are required to meet certain criteria as the role comes with a great deal more power. A Forum Moderator has the responsibility…